How to Create a Boot Floppy

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Boot devices are floppy, cd, usb, or an external hard drive that will start your computer if one of the following things has happened to the internal hard drive: Failure, corrupt, infected with a virus, OS blue screened. So there you are, you have an image of the computer hard drive the tech made when he setup your brand new system. Now it is a blank screen and you are wondering how you are going to get the image back on your system and get back to work.

To create an MS-DOS startup disk :
The MS-DOS startup disk you create will allow you to boot into MS-DOS.
  • Insert a floppy disk into your computer's floppy drive.
  • Open My Computer, and then click the floppy disk drive to select it.
  • On the File menu, point to the name of the floppy drive, and then click Format.
  • Under Format options, click Create an MS-DOS startup disk.
  • Click Start.

Important : Creating an MS-DOS startup disk erases all information on the floppy disk.
Notes :
To open My Computer, double-click the My Computer icon on the desktop.
The MS-DOS startup disk only allows the system to boot into an MS-DOS prompt. The disk contains no additional tools.

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